Comments on: Question of the day: If you had three minutes alone with Al Gore what would you say to him?

By: alwayshope

alwayshope — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:03:54 +0000

Good one, PK!
This could be song. Use the last verse as the chorus and let’s sing right out!
man, I’m a terrible singer. Please, sing louder.

By: PK

PK — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:33:03 +0000

If we are doing poetry and song, I might as well submit this: The Republican Call for Candidates:

We’re looking for an idiot
An honest to God idiot
To be the leader of the good old USA.

Morons need not apply
Your IQs are much too high
To sell the voters the Grand Old Party way.

You needn’t feel queasy
The job is very easy
Carl Rove will tell you everything to say

There’s really nothing to it
The constitution?—Screw it!
The middle class?—We’ll take everything away.

So, we ‘re looking for an idiot
An honest to God idiot
To be the leader of the good old USA

The rich get all the money
The rest do all the work.
If anyone thinks that’s funny,
He’s a tratorous liberal jerk!

‘Cause that’s the Grand Old Party Waaaay!

By: alwayshope

alwayshope — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:27:24 +0000

“Do you think you can tap into the innate decency of the majority of Americans?”

Great question, Larkrise.
This is indeed an untapped treasure that Al could collect.
Bush and his gang only appeal to the negative, prejudiced, angry, frightened side of Americans. The better part of our natures goes wanting in these times
but is longing to be utilized and appreciated. Gore is the only real alternative to the mess everyone else has contributed to. He doesn’t have any of this mess on his hands and could truly say he would change the direction of our country.

By: Larkrise

Larkrise — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:47:05 +0000

Thank you, Alwayshope, for your poem. I think it describes us here at the Cafe very nicely. Now, this is what I would say to Mr. Gore:
I firmly believe the office of President of the United States was stolen from you by vastly lesser men. It is also my belief that the Supreme Court under Rehnquist aided and abetted this travesty. Bush campaigned on the premise that he would unify the country. Instead, he has raped it. Politics can be a dirty business. The likes of Karl Rove and other political operatives prove this beyond doubt. They have taken the current political process to the foulest, lowest depths. The polls show great dissatisfaction with the President and with Congress. It is not only the debacle in Iraq that drives this dissastisfaction. The majority of people now realize they have been played. They are weary of lies, spin, corruption, mud-slinging and waste. They are weary of the terrible cost Bush and a bitterly partisan Congress have forced upon us: Thousands killed and maimed in Iraq. Billions of dollars going down the drain. 47 million without healthcare. Tainted food. Toxic toys. New Orleans devastated. Mining disasters. The list goes on and on. This country needs a President of integrity, of compassion, of intelligence. He or she must be strong, just, and respect the Constitution. That person must be able to overcome a corporate-owned Media, that prefers to smear rather than inform. The right-wing lobbyists and fat-cat campaign donors will be out in full battle gear. Trouble-makers, like Richard Mellon Scaife, will continue to fund dirty tricks. In the midst of such muck, you have continued to stand tall and be heard. Do you think you can tap into the innate decency of the majority of Americans? The people who volunteer, who help their neighbors, who practice tolerance and value the truth? Can you show the Media that ” any means to an end” leads to a dead end? If so, you should consider leading us out of the darkness and into the light.
Thank you,Sir, for your service to your country,
Patricia Davis Chang

By: ThompsonMT

ThompsonMT — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:31:04 +0000

Dear Mr. Gore,
It’s possible we are already too late to avert catastrophe from global warming.

If we have any chance at all, it will require, at a minimum, a president stepping into office with a powerful political mandate to take action on this issue.

You are the only potential candidate who could run and be elected with climate change as one of your core issues.

If Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama, or John Edwards is elected, they might have a mandate to get us out of Iraq, or to deal with the health care crisis, or even to address the widening gap between rich and poor. But they would not have the necessary mandate to push through the kind of initiatives we urgently need on global warming.

Please run, Mr. Gore.

By: scrib42012

scrib42012 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:02:53 +0000

I know that as an ordinary citizen — maybe not so ordinary, I at least participate in precinct and central committee meetings, trying to grow a blue county out of a red one — boring, procedural, vastly essential work — I still feel inordinately frustrated, seething and screaming with impotent rage, complaining on a daily basis that I can’t seem to do anything to make the world better. Do you feel this way as well? You can accomplish so much more than an “ordinary citizen,” but is it ever enough? What would satisfy you in your soul?

By: CADEM

CADEM — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:43:39 +0000

Please Mr. Gore, you would have amazing support. America needs honest leadership to restore our homeland to what it once was, a respected place. We can’t always be perfect, but now we are without a constitution, a country that has let down the poor and ill, has let down our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have had almost 7 years of poor leadership. Please run for President. We need you!!

By: Avedon

Avedon — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:27:43 +0000

You spoke out before the invasion of Iraq opposing it - eloquently. Now I wonder why you haven’t said anything about getting out.

By: Larry the Red

Larry the Red — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:42:12 +0000

Mr. Gore, how can you look at this field of Democratic presidential contenders and not feel a duty to get into this? You know Hillary better than all of us put together, so you must know that she’s not nearly as progressive as you are, and nobody that I know of has accused her of being bold or visionary. If she wins, and winds up being the same kind of president as her husband, would you want it on your conscience that you might have been able to prevent that? Beyond that, both Obama and Edwards have some serious downsides as candidates and neither would be a shoo-in by any means. I can’t blame you for not wanting to go through again what you endured in 2000, but seriously, how much worse could it be this time? We need you, man.

By: willymack

willymack — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:46:03 +0000

As you know all too well, the bush regime is an ILLEGAL one. Everything they’ve done since Jan. 20th, 2001 has been a disaster and an abject failure. The rest of the world looks down at bush as a homicidal moron. Our dollar is going down the chute. A helpless Iraq is a tragedy that certainly wouldn’t have happened if the 2000 “election” hadn’t been stolen from you. Our treasury is severly depleted-looted by the bush regime. Our Constitutional guatantees are shrinking and under constant threat. Our social programs are under daily attack by those who couldn’t care less about the welfare of our people. The 2006 election, instead of being a new beginning for democracy and sanity has been rendered moot by a fanatical cadre of power brokers, war profiteers, and other criminals of the worst sort. We need someone of your calibre and moral strength to rally around and overthrow the oligarchy that threatens our nation as never before. Please consider running for president again. I’m sure you’ll win again, and this time I don’t think our people will stand for any flim-flammery again.